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# Ada lovelace TT



- Evelina is on the RSE board as a trustee 
    - https://society-rse.org/about/governance/
- The head of the new Turing Data wrangling team (Ann-Marie Mallon https://twitter.com/AnnMarieMallon)
- We could say something about all the women (Camila, Helen, Radka and Ann-Marie Mallon) that supported UKHSA through the Turing-RSS Health Lab https://twitter.com/turingrss_hdlab ("statistical modelling and machine learning for current and future health surveillance")
- Lydia's nature paper and podcast appearance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwQRgDGjzGg
  - New Scientist did a piece and interviewed me (on birds) https://www.newscientist.com/article/2326535-hawks-forward-dive-and-then-swoop-up-to-hit-the-brakes-before-landing/
  - so did quanta magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/geometric-analysis-reveals-how-birds-mastered-flight-20220803/
- We could give a shout out to Christina even though she's an alumni now - she became an SSI fellow and then won a Fullbright to do a super cool MSc.
    - https://twitter.com/turinghut23/status/1481624026522992640?s=20&t=G3_XBpgyx7bGNSieGa8-RQ
- Camila posted about JOSS paper that came out of a project where they developed a package for stone tool analysis (pylithics)
    - https://twitter.com/CamilaRangelS/status/1487415953814085633?s=20&t=G3_XBpgyx7bGNSieGa8-RQ 

- Aoife was made an editor for JOSS
    - https://twitter.com/AoifeHughes__/status/1568381485895323657

- It depends what we would like this thread to do. Me, I'd like to give some ideas to women. So maybe we could ask for a one sentence from each female team member about what they would like to do with their lives, with reference to this job
    - [name=Camila I like this idea, can we write some of these thoughts here?]
    - [name=Radka] great idea! should the question be something like what we like about the job? I'm not sure I know what I want to do with my life... 😅 +1 ([name=Camila] same here :-)!)  
    - [name=May] No one knows what they want to do with their lives. Which is why reading it will be interesting.
    - [name=May] I wonder if we ask the men the same questions, their answers will be any different from ours? Can we determine sex using the phases that we use?
- We might consider setting up a "I'm a female REG at the Turing, AMA". And run a parallel "I'm a male REG at the Turing, AMA". And planting some initial questions.
    - [name=Camila] I like this idea, probably too soon for tormorrow, given that someone will have to devote a lot of their time to it, but can schedule it for the future. 
- Thanks for thinking about this, Camila! +1 ([name=Radka])

- [name=Aoife] Quick thought: Do we worry about scaring off potential applicants/making people feel like they're behind? Is there a way of making it look friendlier and less intimidating - tbh I'm reading this and feeling very imposter-y 🫣
    - Just a thought and don't mean to be a downer on things
    - What is it that you worry will scare people off? I see heartfelt sentiments here?
        - people looking to apply to us and maybe seeing some amazing things and feeling like they're not qualified to apply to roles? idk. 
        - I should say, I'm not against this in anyway, these are amazing things to share, but wondered if we could/should say something about ATI enabling or promoting our team to do such wonderful things?
    - I wonder if we could say how we started off. So instead of a one sentence what we want to do with our lives, the template would be: "When I started at REG x years ago, I was a ... (lost postdoc)". Today, I would like to ... (save the world)
        - Oh this does sound like a cool idea / possible other thread? "Where I started vs. where I am"?
        - That sounds like a better narrative yes
            - Yeah... sorry the above sounded so negative, really didn't mean it, just been thinking about the vibes we give off that influences who applies to us. (I shared our advert to a group of PhD students a few weeks ago and seen some comments that read like "yeah, maybe in a few years I could apply")
            - Your idea is good, the journey is more important/interestung than the end point.
- Based on discussion above, we could have the three quesions to frame a journey: "When I started at the REG, I was a ()", then "What we like about working at the REG" and "Today I want to do X with my life." Camila what do you think?
    - [name=Camila] I think that is a good idea, and is kind of what we were thinking when writing the spotlights! My concern here is how to we keep all this in one tweet :)

## A quick sentence of what we like about working in REG:

- [name=Radka] Being part of a team and working with a diverse set of incredibly smart and nice people to enable cool research.
- [name=Camila] Getting to learn about the state of the art in a new field everytime I start a new project.
- [name=Aoife] The sheer range of projects we get to work on, and also the breadth of backgrounds of people in the group, there's always something interesting going on and fun conversations to be had!
- [name=May] I like the non-hierarchical way team members mentor and learn from each other.
- [name=Lydia] We're always learning,  always asking questions, and being a force for good practices in research. Working and solving problems in multidisciplinary groups.

## A quick sentence about what we want to do with our lives:

- [name=May] I want to be wise enough in this field to be able to make a difference to people and causes I care about. (Maybe I want to learn how to keep my mouth shut about asking questions I don't alread have a good answer to.)

- [name=Radka] ~~Rule the world (benevolent dictator style)!~~ 😂 I'd like to contribute to an open source project that genuinely makes someone's life/work easier and better. (THOUGHT: does this sound too much like we *don't* really do this?) No, it sounds like it is important to us because you are saying it.

    - [name=Camila] Ambitious! 
    - [name=Radka] I am! 😄

- [name=Camila] I really dont know. Think harder.
    - The thing is, if you ask me what i wanted to do with my life 8 years ago (when i decided to leave physics), this was probably it. So i have this feeling that i'm done hehe. Now i need to think what will be the next 10 years and i'm finding it harder. 
    - Saying this (that this is exactly what you want and you're now in a position to consider what next) sounds perfect to me. Just Ctrl-C Ctrl-V the text!
 
- [name=Aoife] I'd like to make things easier for people - whether it's through open-source projects, doing science, teaching, mentoring or making their voices heard
    - I'd also like to somehow contribute to the downfall of elsevier and springer-nature 
 
 
 
## Turing twitter handles


- [name=Aoife] @AoifeHughes__ 
- [name=Radka] @radka_jersak
- [name=May] I don't have one
- @CamilaRangelS
- @evelgab
- @helendduncan (is private though, would need Helen's permission)
- @AnnMarieMallon (Data wrangling lead)
- @last_christina (alumni, re: SSI fellowship mentioned above)


## Planned Tweets 

### Thread 1 

- General tweet about the day and saying we are going to celebrate women in REG
- Start with Lydas podcast
- Link to Nature Paper
- Evelina being an RSE board
- Work from some women in REG in the Turing RSS lab
- Tweet about Christina becoming a Fulbright
- Shout out to the head of the new Turing Data wrangling team (Ann-Marie Mallon)

### Thread 2 (Working in REG)

1. 
> Here in the Research Engineering Group (REG) @Turingist we aim to be a fantastic place to work, so to continue with #AdaLovelaceDay we asked some of our team what they
love about working in REG
2. 
> @radka_jersak "Being part of a team and working with a diverse set of incredibly smart and nice people to enable cool research."
3. 
> @CamilaRangelS "Getting to learn about the state of the art in a new field everytime I start a new project."
4. 
> @AoifeHughes__ "The sheer range of projects we get to work on, and also the breadth of backgrounds of people in the group, there’s always something interesting going on and fun conversations to be had!"
5. 
> May Yong "I like the non-hierarchical way team members mentor and learn from each other.""
6. 
> Lydia France "We’re always learning, always asking questions, and being a force for good practices in research. Working and solving problems in multidisciplinary groups."


## Misc

- Using hashtag of #ALD22
    - @FindingAda seems to be an interesting account 
- Could mention @turingway, it's female leads?